Peach Melba, Building 7, and Why Teachers Talk About Becoming Teachers

• 12:17Tim recalls his childhood New Year's Day party serving only peach melba for dessert, contrasting it with modern attempts to please everyone by offering multiple options.
• 12:54Cooking used to be a mark of pride, with family members spending days preparing food everyone looked forward to all year.
• 13:07Tim complains about supermarket macaroni and cheese bought from someone stirring it in an oxycontin frenzy in Long Island.
• 13:40He defends his loud delivery at Kill Tony, explaining he's playing to a room of 300 people and gets worked up about real issues.
• 14:27Tim argues that formality and dignity matter at holidays—people should use real plates and utensils instead of plastic, because the event itself has significance.
• 15:21His stepmother hands out slippers at Christmas every year, and Tim brings up 9/11 and Building 7 while everyone is distracted by how soft the Snuggies are.
• 15:43Teachers constantly talk about why they decided to become teachers as if it's a major accomplishment, when the real reason is they don't like hard work and wanted summers off.
• 16:28Tim says he never criticized teachers until they started claiming to have the most important job in the world, which isn't true—it's not even in the top hundred important jobs.
• 16:52There's no shortage of teachers because if one doesn't show up, a substitute can step in immediately and do the job, proving it's not that specialized or irreplaceable.
• 17:31Tim doesn't want to put on the slippers his stepmother hands out and jokes about wanting to tie a rope around his neck instead.

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